Dear all

Just picked up my new rifle today - a Remi 700 XCR in 7mm Rem Mag. My pet load for 7mm is 67grns of RL22 behind 160 Grn Accubond. I am hoping this will work but i also have some 160 Grn Partitions also which would be my bullet of choice but have never seemed to get them to work previously.

Anybody got the same rifle in 7mm and how have you found it? Any favourite loads you would be willing to share?

Looking forward to shooting it in at the range and then dialing in.

Thanks

JB

I've got a M700 in 7mag. not the xcr. I run IMR 4831 behind the 160 partition. I've killed all kinds of stuff with it. I think I'll try the accubond.

Hello Jon2,
Is your Remington Across the Course rifle, hence XC designation or am I on the wrong track here??

Remington 700XCR

eXtreem
Conditions
Rifle

It's a stainless steel with a Nickel-Zirconium Nitride coating
in an SPS plastic with rubber overmolded grip areas.

And there is no reason why that rifle would be any more or less particular about what ammo it's fed if compared to any other stainless steel Rem700 in 7Mag.

The only thing "special" with an XCR as compared to a garden variety 700SPS is the protective coating that is applied to the exterior of the barrel and receiver.

AllanD

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Originally posted by Jon2:
Dear all

Just picked up my new rifle today - a Remi 700 XCR in 7mm Rem Mag. My pet load for 7mm is 67grns of RL22 behind 160 Grn Accubond. I am hoping this will work but i also have some 160 Grn Partitions also which would be my bullet of choice but have never seemed to get them to work previously.

Anybody got the same rifle in 7mm and how have you found it? Any favourite loads you would be willing to share?

Looking forward to shooting it in at the range and then dialing in.

Thanks

JB

I may be imagining things but it seems to recoil differently when I use IMR 7828 in it. Anybody else think so, or am I borrowing my wife's hot flashes?

Allan

Totally agree and my brother has the SPS in the same calibre and shoots .75 consistently but i do like the look of the new finish. Have just arranged a Blackbuck hunt in Texas as part of a Southern State Safari and am looking forward to using it on other species also.

Thanks for the input.

Well, I'd tell you what my current rem 700 in 7mmMag likes, but there's two problems with that...

First it's a new rifle and I don't have a scope on it yet.
Second it has a Hart barrel on it, so what it likes....may not be useful to you

Past experience with another Remington leads me to believe that the ideal bullet weight for the 7mmMag is a 140grain and I settled fairly early on on a maximum charge of RL22 pushing a 140gr Nosler Partition from a Rem case lit with a federal 215 primer.

I think the only need for 160gr bullets in a 7mm is from the fevered minds and resulting rantings from the "heavy bullet mafia"

And I'm not even sure 140's are needed for most game, but then again, I shoot mostly whitetail deer and originally got a 7mmMag to eliminate the need for a 25-06 to be a "dual purpose" rifle... for shooting down the length of river bottom cornfields and the 7mmMag can launch 140gr partitions at about the same speed as a 25-06 can launch the 100gr partition...(A load that worked extreemly well for me on the few oppertunities I got to use it)

Alliant RL22 works too well for too many of my loads to seriously expirement with many other (otherwise excellent) propellants.

Now, to have a 120gr Accubond bullet... and having it leave a 26" barrel at ~3600fps... it's still going to be doing 2600fps+ at 400yds...

Of course there are the various weights of the Barnes
TSX... though I think the MRX is "a bit much" and would have much rather skipped the tungsten core and just gotten some lighter (Not to mention cheaper) TSX's (say, 130gr in 7mm) with a polymer tip...


Or Nosler could get innovative and modify their partition design by adding a polymer tip to it...

AllanD